02 April 2007
Nokia N95; Carl Zeiss; Tessar Optic; 5 MPX
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FULL REVIEW
WITH
HUGE CAMERA
PART IS ONLINE NOW!!!
Its hard to say something about camera quality after the just 24 hours but so far I can say that overall, camera part is improved in comparison to proto model that I have tested some time ago.
Soft is more stable and definitely faster, but the time between two shots is still to long in my personal opinion, far away from the classic point and shoot digy cams.
The very well known Mars effect, annoying red tone from the proto photos has gone, it seams that Nokia has solved this problem but not completely, on some photos the red tone is still noticeable although it is not as intensive as before. Again improvement is more than noticeable, situation with white balance is acceptable but still not ideal.
Anyway, our photo expert, Mr. Bigley has very interesting opinion about this issue.
As I suspected the red tinting is not fixed ie static in any way. It is in fact variable depending on the shooting conditions. Basically my theory of the red tint used to remove infrared spectra effects similarly found in N73 but as purple tinting, is getting more feasible every day. In different scenarios, and use of different artificial lighting, there will be a different amount of IR from these sources.
Nokia in their final release have decided to just throw in some random color correction they determined by testing on a single sample shot. That is why some shots will not have the red tint and other will still have some, but less red tint than before.
This is very disappointing. Users of mobile phone cameras just want out of camera use of pictures, now they will have to go find a PC, load up some kind of photo editor and apply color correction. Alternatively they could use Resco photo viewer, which actually lets you adjust the basic colors red, green and blue, and compensate accordingly.
The mega pixel race on the digital cameras of the last years seems to have settled down now but in the mobile phone world it seems that there is a completely different trend. Mobile phone manufactures pump mega pixels while the optics and sensor size basically remain the same. Therefore, this trend has a terrible effect on photo quality in my personal opinion.
They know that most of the phone users care only about the number of mega pixels and the idea that more mega pixels usually mean better sale results. I still think that it is no excuse and that they should start working on quality and stop boosting pixels just like that!! Surely, a 5mpx sensor and this huge number of pixels have some advantage and on most images it is obvious that the N95's 5mpx sensor resolves more details overall and this is noticeable especially in darker areas, shadows actually.
From other hand, increasing amount of pixels while the sensor and optic basically remain the same always results with more noise and to compensate this effect producer uses less or more aggressive noise reductions. Speaking of N95 I just have to say that noise reduction algorithm is a little bit to aggressive in my personal opinion and results with water colors and loosing details.
New set of devices ready for the camera part of the upcoming review:
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That's all for now, I won't clutter this article with a whole lot of words, but I can promises you we'll bring more detailed camera overview is on the way and will be part of the upcoming N95 review. We got some nice phones for a comparison camera test and I can promise you, there will be a lot of samples, attractive comparison photos and last but not least great and professional comments by our photo expert Mr. Bigley.
Macro, extremely good lighting conditions:
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Panorama, good lighting conditions again.. . .
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Portrait, from extremely good, over average and very bad lighting conditions on the last one with disabled flash of course:
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People, good or extremly good lighting conditions
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Video samples:
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That's all for now, more to come shortly.. . .
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